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Overseas guests

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maeveiscurious · 12/09/2022 07:52

Interesting statement today

Please only bring one extra person to the funeral, fly commercial and there will be a park and ride.

Good on them for stating this early on. So many countries arrive with a huge entourage and their own cars.

Scaled back and environmentally friendly .

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greenhousegal · 18/09/2022 11:16

I hope there's no row about who gets what seat on the bus.

They might have a sing song together on the way too. Refreshments? Toilets on board? My imagination is running riot here.

Antarcticant · 18/09/2022 11:19

greenhousegal · 18/09/2022 11:16

I hope there's no row about who gets what seat on the bus.

They might have a sing song together on the way too. Refreshments? Toilets on board? My imagination is running riot here.

There'll be a bun-fight for the front seat to see the sights of London out of the driver's window, and a bunch of laddish types grabbing the back hoping to get away with a crafty smoke.

eddiemairswife · 18/09/2022 11:28

They should have double-deckers. I bet most of them have never been upstairs on a bus.

viques · 18/09/2022 11:33

FlagsFiend · 17/09/2022 14:31

I think I remember reading somewhere that the European royals would be accommodated by the palace, which makes sense as they are mostly blood relatives of the Queen. Then everyone else would be staying in nice hotels in London - I guess there was probably some prearranged plan to allow this to happen smoothly.

I also think by 'bus' they likely mean posh, security checked and appropriate coaches not that they have borrowed a load of tfl double deckers.

There are some lovely double deckers in London atm which are painted white and advertise the Elizabeth line. Just saying……….. oh and the writing on them is purple.

viques · 18/09/2022 11:37

PizzaFunghi · 18/09/2022 09:41

yes it is a bit. I think they tried to choose some others as well - I just saw part of the list in the newspaper but haven't looked at the whole thing - but I just found the part about the previous prime ministers, including the disastrous one, a shame. Maybe she's gone on to do more newsworthy things since. And if they wanted some of the previous ones to go, I guess they couldn't exclude her, but they didn't have to pick the previous ones unless they had been particularly close to the queen during their terms (and maybe some of them were, so I can't really criticise that). The Governor General is a First Nations woman, though, so I'm sure she'll be going.

There was a picture of Trudeau on twitter this morning taken by a journalist who'd run into him accidentally coming back from a walk to the same hotel. So I guess that means many of them are staying in hotels (it was St James, apparently - is that Claridges?), as are many of the media. I'd totally forgotten the fact that all the world's media would also need hotel rooms!! That adds even more complications to the planning. They must have had some mechanism arranged for block booking hotels for all this kind of thing.

Wouldn’t most of them be put up at their Embassies or whatever the smaller ones have. I imagine a quick dash to John Lewis for new bedding and towels and some nice smellies for the guest en-suite.

Antarcticant · 18/09/2022 11:39

viques · 18/09/2022 11:33

There are some lovely double deckers in London atm which are painted white and advertise the Elizabeth line. Just saying……….. oh and the writing on them is purple.

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They could dig out Boris's Brexit bus to lighten the mood with some comedy.

DFOD · 18/09/2022 13:30

m.youtube.com/watch?v=p_GLSgJ39Dc

Hope that they have this piped music on the bus…

“On the National Express there's a jolly hostess
Selling crisps and tea
She'll provide you with drinks and theatrical winks
For a sky-high fee
Mini-skirts were in style when she danced down the aisle
Back in '63 (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
But it's hard to get by when your arse is the size
Of a small country
And everybody sings, "Ba-ba-ba-da"
We're going where the air is free
Tomorrow belongs to me”

Andylion · 18/09/2022 13:44

PizzaFunghi · 17/09/2022 11:32

Sounds nicer what the Australians are doing. Canada, as a commonwealth country, also gets to send an extra 10, but they are choosing (amongst others) the former living prime ministers - including the one that was only PM for 100ish days, before losing so badly in the election that her party ended up going from a majority, to only 2 seats! And it was years ago. But they can't not include her if they are including other former prime ministers, so she has to go. I could think of other people who might deserve to go more than her - ordinary Canadians involved in good causes, former governor generals, all sorts of people seem like better picks to me. But I'm not the one picking.

I hope the Obamas get an invite of their own, once it's known how many spaces there are left after the world leaders.

I guess some of them provide their own security, but must also get some from the UK from people familiar with the plan.

I guess embassies are probably the most likely accommodations

I keep forgetting that KC was ever PM.
I think she should have declined the invitation and freed up a space so someone else could go.

PizzaFunghi · 18/09/2022 13:45

viques · 18/09/2022 11:37

Wouldn’t most of them be put up at their Embassies or whatever the smaller ones have. I imagine a quick dash to John Lewis for new bedding and towels and some nice smellies for the guest en-suite.

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yes the embassies were my first thought, and then someone said they were mostly going to be at hotels (Claridges), which does seem to be the case for some at least - and others at the palace (European royalty). I wondered how it was all going to work when there had also been people saying it was impossible to get hotel rooms in London, and with all the leaders and entourage (and of course media, which I'd forgotten), I wondered how it would all work. But it seems that it was all arranged and hotels block booked as soon as it was announced or something.

PizzaFunghi · 18/09/2022 13:56

Andylion · 18/09/2022 13:44

I keep forgetting that KC was ever PM.
I think she should have declined the invitation and freed up a space so someone else could go.

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Yes, that would have been good. There are probably a lot of other worthy delegates. Even if it were another politician, there are still people like former Governor Generals etc who were in post for much longer.

wizzywig · 18/09/2022 14:00

Booking up premier inns and Travelodge I'm sure

PizzaFunghi · 19/09/2022 10:30

I just turned it on as I was working before - so did the overseas leaders all arrive by the bus? Except Biden?

Toddlerteaplease · 23/09/2022 22:05

eddiemairswife · 18/09/2022 11:28

They should have double-deckers. I bet most of them have never been upstairs on a bus.

A fleet of routemasters would have been amazing!

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